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The book Idiom Attack Vol. 1 Everyday Living (sim. Chinese Edition) is a must-have book should be read by a non-native English speaker, which contains over 300 common and relevant idioms for daily life conversations in North America. The structure of the book helps the English learner gradually discover, understand, and practice the idioms as a native English speaker in North America.
I enjoy reading the book. The text is fluent, and content is easy to understand for the middle level and above English learners. The authors, Peter Nicholas Liptak, Matthew Douma, and Jay Douma, were born in North America and have years of English teaching experience to foreigners, who can easily understand the language barriers for a foreigner English learner and use their step-by-step way to introduce the English idioms to foreigners and eventually help them master the idioms and avoid the "idiom attack" for their future conversations with native English speakers.
The Simple Chinese Edition can be used as a textbook for native Chinese speakers who would like to master English and understand the culture in North America on a daily basis. The book is very helpful for them to be able to successfully communicate with native English speakers and avoid lots of misunderstanding. The ultimate goal to master a language is only being able to know how the formal expression but also being able to actually live in the environment and successfully communicate with native language speakers. I think this book has successfully made the point. It would be great if the book can keep updating their edition to incorporate the most up-to-date idioms in the modern world.
There are some minor grammar and formatting mistakes throughout the book. For example, in the “Fill in the blanks with the appropriate idioms” section, there are several blanks are missing which may confuse the readers. There are also several Chinese translation mistakes that may cause misunderstanding for Chinese readers.
In general, the English text is well-written while the Chinese translation seems like an unproofread draft, with missing words, wrong interpretation, and typos. I would recommend the editors/translators do a thorough check for the book and better present the content to the non-native English-speaking readers to make sure the translations could convey the meaning of the idioms explicitly and clearly.
In a nutshell, I would give the book 3 out of 4 stars. It is still worth reading for the foreign-language speakers who want to use English fluently for daily conversations, although there are some translation mistakes. The content is interesting and educational.
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Idiom Attack Vol. 1 Everyday Living (Sim. Chinese Edition)
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The book Idiom Attack Vol. 1 Everyday Living (sim. Chinese Edition) is a must-have book should be read by a non-native English speaker, which contains over 300 common and relevant idioms for daily life conversations in North America. The structure of the book helps the English learner gradually discover, understand, and practice the idioms as a native English speaker in North America.
I enjoy reading the book. The text is fluent, and content is easy to understand for the middle level and above English learners. The authors, Peter Nicholas Liptak, Matthew Douma, and Jay Douma, were born in North America and have years of English teaching experience to foreigners, who can easily understand the language barriers for a foreigner English learner and use their step-by-step way to introduce the English idioms to foreigners and eventually help them master the idioms and avoid the "idiom attack" for their future conversations with native English speakers.
The Simple Chinese Edition can be used as a textbook for native Chinese speakers who would like to master English and understand the culture in North America on a daily basis. The book is very helpful for them to be able to successfully communicate with native English speakers and avoid lots of misunderstanding. The ultimate goal to master a language is only being able to know how the formal expression but also being able to actually live in the environment and successfully communicate with native language speakers. I think this book has successfully made the point. It would be great if the book can keep updating their edition to incorporate the most up-to-date idioms in the modern world.
There are some minor grammar and formatting mistakes throughout the book. For example, in the “Fill in the blanks with the appropriate idioms” section, there are several blanks are missing which may confuse the readers. There are also several Chinese translation mistakes that may cause misunderstanding for Chinese readers.
In general, the English text is well-written while the Chinese translation seems like an unproofread draft, with missing words, wrong interpretation, and typos. I would recommend the editors/translators do a thorough check for the book and better present the content to the non-native English-speaking readers to make sure the translations could convey the meaning of the idioms explicitly and clearly.
In a nutshell, I would give the book 3 out of 4 stars. It is still worth reading for the foreign-language speakers who want to use English fluently for daily conversations, although there are some translation mistakes. The content is interesting and educational.
******
Idiom Attack Vol. 1 Everyday Living (Sim. Chinese Edition)
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